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drongo
1[ drong-goh ]
noun
- any passerine bird of the family Dicruridae, of Africa, Asia, and Australia, the several species usually having black plumage and long, forked tails.
drongo
2[ drong-goh ]
noun
- a stupid or slow-witted person; simpleton.
drongo
/ ˈdrɒŋɡəʊ /
noun
- Also calleddrongo shrike any insectivorous songbird of the family Dicruridae, of the Old World tropics, having a glossy black plumage, a forked tail, and a stout bill
- slang.a slow-witted person
- informal.a new recruit in the Royal Australian Air Force
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First and foremost among these is the king-crow or black drongo (Dicrurus ater).
Almost as widely distributed, but far less abundant, is the white-bellied drongo.
In the Western Province of Ceylon it is replaced by a drongo having less white in the plumage.
I have never seen the Dhouli, or white-bellied drongo, perched on anything but a branch of a tree.
Looking up, I observed, perched on a bare branch at the summit of the tree, a white-bellied drongo.
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